48 BOULDER KEVERIES. 



because lie has developed other desires, other 

 needs ? 



"Live while you may; die when you must," 

 seems to be the rule of life of most of the lower 

 forms of animals, and perhaps of the majority 

 of the lower classes of the human species. Those 

 who have reached or who have touched the up- 

 per planes of human existence seem to be the 

 ones who are the most dissatisfied. Back of this 

 dissatisfaction, in America at least, is the rul- 

 ing passion the love of money. 



Go into the average small town or city of 

 betwen 500 and 5,000 souls, and that love is the 

 chief thought, the chief idea, cherished by 95 

 per cent, of the people. A man may go there, 

 a perfect stranger, with only ten cents in his 

 pocket and by the great majority he will be 

 treated as a tramp. No notice will be taken of 

 him. He will go hungry, yea, even starve, tho' 

 his cerebral faculties may be of the highest 

 order. If he possess ten dollars, he will, for a 

 time, be looked up to by a certain class, whose 

 only idea is to change that money from his 

 pocket into theirs, and that as soon as possible > 

 after which he will be beneath their notice. 



